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Antonin Dvořák has long been a subject of interest for editor Bernard Zaslav. In his latest release, Zaslav finds a home for Dvořák's Rondo in G Minor, Op. 94 on the viola. The Rondo is a wonderfully entertaining piece that belongs in the standard repertoire every violist too!

Loyset Compère and Orlando di Lasso represent two generations of the same musical tradition: the Franco-Flemish school. Now, half a millennium later, two fantastic cello ensemble arrangements of these great composers' music by Hans Erik Deckert are available for download exclusively at Ovation Press: O vos omnes and O la, o che bon eccho!.

Holiday music is often derided as cliché and sub-par. To prove that you can have expertly written and edited music in your winter season repertoire, Stephen Watkins provides an accessible cello ensemble arrangement of Fantasy on I Saw Three Ships that refrains from being trite or condescending.

"O Mio Babbino Caro" is among the most popular arias in opera and is arguably Giacomo Puccini's most famous work. And, while the aria has been done in countless arrangements – from piano & voice, to solo violin, to string orchestra – Ovation Press' exclusive arrangement by Fedor Amosov is one of the few for cello ensemble.

Editor Valter Dešpalj's newest transcriptions for cello ensemble pull from two of the three major periods within the Baroque period. Alessandro Stradella's Sinfonia a tre and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's Concerto in A minor represent the Middle Baroque and Late Baroque respectively.